The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-06-02
Decoration Day,
And RecOlIOIIcCtiOus OF a far
OF Time.

Some days ago, while the Grand
Army men and ex soldiers; We're
busily engaged in making prepara.
ton for Decoration Day, 1t occur
red to me that the regiment to
which one OF the soldiers buried in
the cemetery here belonged, was
associated with some of my earliest
recollections.
One morning, long years ago, l
remembered following magnificent
body of men down the pike from
Worthlngton towards Columbus.
l marched with them several miles
through a binding snow storm, be-
fore was captured and carried
home. That was the 46th o. V. L.,
Colonel Thomas WorthIngton com
mander and Chas. Walcutt second
in command. 1t was sorrowful
parting for me for the boys were
my friends. l had mar, he'd with
them many times to the tap of the
mufiled drum as a comrade was car
RED away to the cemetery. Arms
reversed, the salute fired, and the
ceremony was over ard then the
lively march home.
Those were jolly times for the
boy. Whenever he could run away
and get to camp he always found the
latch string out and a warm vel
come within.
The boys used to say some very
vain things about Gel. Tom, peace
to his ashes. l think they called
him "butter heels" On the parade
ground he used an old iron RAM
rod for sword, if remember
rightly and when he cried attention
battaIion,' 1t meant business all
along the line. -
When the old man was in the
bumor, his by the right flank, by
the left flank and forwards double
quicks,' were worse on the boys than
a Turkish bath. :.
guess he knew what they need
ed, for IN answer to a letter of in
qulry the other day Gen. Charles
Walcutt writes: 81 cannot recol-
Iect the day of the month when the
46th left Camp Lyon, but it was in
the fore part of February, 1862. 1t
did snow very hard the day We left
camp. From the day it went to the
front the 46th was kept busy; fol-
lowing Sherman through about all
his campaigns. When in camp at
Worthington the boys were afraid
the war would be over before they
could get into a battle"
At the battle of.Shiloh the boys
had a tOuph time OF II,
That snowy morning when they
marched away was a glorious
sight. The bright barrel of the
musket cleaned through the storm !;
the harmony step of the marching
regiment seemed to shake the solid
pike to its foundation and as l
looked back today 1 can still see
down that SNOWY vista the weeping
women and children that thronged
the way and can hear coming down
the wintry blast the last "God
bless you'' of the father that had
sent his only boy to the wars.
After the battle of Shiloh, come
my first realization of the horrors O
war. THIS poor teilox was sho
through the head, that boy, ou
neighbor, was among the dead
That was the beginning of the ag'
woe. some of the boys found
ong portage before they reached
the river of death, but we Away
knew 1t long before the coachmal
reached the village with the mail
Those were awful times. There W.
a season of weeping and then fol
lowed that other sorrow, when pale
tearless-eyed women stood in th
eventlde and listened to the moan
Ing winds that swept in from th
Southern plain. Every blast Wa
like the last cry of the soul of
father, a husband, p brother, or
lover. that, l.a ftseaiag !leaveaWare ffc!